Donna is invited to speak around the country at schools, businesses, conferences.  Her website, www.donnarose.com, is a popular source of information and support for and about the transgender community.

Donna has an active media presence, including features in The Advocate, USA Today, Marie Claire magazine, Investors Business Daily, on CNN and in CNN Money.  In 2007 she participated in a 3-part series on Transgender on Entertainment Tonight. 

Donna’s memoir, Wrapped In Blue: A Journey of Self-Discovery, was featured in the 2003 Texas Book Festival and remains one of the most honest and personal accounts of the profound mental, physical, and spiritual changed involved in a gender transition.  She was awarded a Trinity Award for her work by the International Foundation for Gender Education in 2007, and received Campus Pride’s first “Voice and Action Award” in 2008.

Donna Rose is a nationally recognized author, speaker, and advocate for transgender and transsexual issues. Donna’s leadership role in LGBT advocacy is extensive:

She was the first and only transgender member of the board of Directors of the Human Rights Campaign where she also served as the National Co-chair for Diversity and as a committee member on the Public Policy Committee.  She resigned in Oct. 2007 over the organizations decision to reverse past commitments and support a version of the Employment Non-Discrimination act that did not protect transgender people. 

She was one of two transgender members of the HRC Business Council.  In that role she helped to develop and implement best practices in corporate policy on LGBT issues.  She was highlighted as a “Gay Corporate Leader” by the Advocate magazine in 2005.

Donna was the first and only member of the board of directors for the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD). 

Donna serves on the board of the National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce, she is a member of the Out and Equal Transgender Advisory Committee, and was co-chair of the 2008 Out and Equal Workplace Summit in Austin, TX.